MC Midnight Commander: error opening PDF files refers to Dolphin

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On 14.01.2015 07:55, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-01-12 at 13:23 +0100, A.J. Bonnema wrote:
>> I have always used MC as my commandline filemanager and really like
>> it. However, since Fedora 21, when opening a PDF file it always shows
>> an error that it cannot open "/usr/bin/dolphin" which is
>> understandable, because by default gnome uses a different file manager
>> (Nautilus I think).
> 
> I haven't used MC for ages, but can you try simply changing the
> preferences for what MC uses to open PDF files?  MC may have defaulted
> for using a KDE client, instead of something else.
> 
> Some things palm off opening files to some other file handler, such as
> gnome-open, or xdg-open (the latter is less biased towards a particular
> desktop), which check the file to see what it is, then open it with an
> appropriate default program.  If MC does that, it may be that you need
> to configure /that/ handler instead of MC.
> 
> Or, maybe the solution is to reconfigure MC to use that handler to deal
> with PDF files.
> 
> Usually, with something more graphical than MC, you can right click on a
> particular file, then choose what it's opened with, and also have some
> option for changing the default application for what will open the same
> type of file.  I don't know if MC works that way now, nor whether simply
> right clicking on some PDF file through your desktop, instead of MC,
> will let you set default preferences that will apply to MC, as well.
> 
> Somewhere in there, one of those suggestions ought to do the trick, but
> write back to the list if you're still stuck.
> 
> 

$ xdg-mime query default application/pdf
evince.desktop


Use xdg-open by default in mc.ext.in if present to open files,
fallback on current scheme otherwise
https://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2118

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